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This Valentine's Day the author is neither lonely, miserable nor jealous. Why? Because she knows that romantic love, at least the kind represented on Valentine's Day, is pure sham. Those smiling idiots who buy the Hallmark cards and the roses have no idea that true love is really about fights and make-ups, bed-head and bad days. And those of us who know it aren't jealous of those who have it because it's hard, damn hard, to love someone like that...
...Federal courts and the Justice Department are arbiters for many diverse ethnic groups who seek intervention for social injustice. Even if Ashcroft's heart is pure, his failure to implement voluntary busing of schoolchildren as part of a Missouri desegregation program showed racial insensitivity. FARIBORZ MOHAMADI Lake Forest, Ill. A Bleak St. Petersburg
...normally an absolute moral rock. Just ask anybody here at TIME.com. Just three months ago, in the time I now sadly recognize as Before the Fall, I was an innocent, and pure, and un-Napstered. This was mainly because it was difficult for me to get Napster; we have a vicious and unyielding corporate firewall here at 1271 Avenue of the Americas, and I was using a World War II surplus dial-up modem at home...
...quite clear what kind of performance is being measured. One possible response is that grades measure "learning." But learning, in the pure sense, is the act of acquiring knowledge. A humanities student taking an introductory chemistry class might "learn" more than his pre-med peers, but that doesn't necessarily translate into a higher grade. Measuring learning requires taking into account a student's knowledge of the subject material at the end of the term and how much it differs from that student's knowledge at the beginning of the term...
...People feel guilty if they miss too many classes or fall too far behind," he adds. "It's all about minimizing stress, and people drink up to the point where stress relieved equals stress caused. It's pure economics...